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New Hampshire · Public charity

Education Comes First Inc

Furthering the education of children outside of the classroom by enhancing their performance in the areas of mathematics, reading, and social development

$1.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
24
Itemized grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$920k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$37,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$52,500
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$541k
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Youth Development$848kEducation$78kHuman Services$53kReligion$48kCrime & Legal$43kRecreation & Sports$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Education Comes First Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc: $77,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGrenville Baker Boys and Girls Club Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Haverhill Inc: $67,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of the Lower Merrimack Valley Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: $65,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc: $52,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metro North Inc: $52,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuilding Bridges Through Music Inc: $47,500 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetGlen Cove Boys & Girls Club at Lincoln House Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFriends of the Children- New York: $42,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Real Program Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Inc: $37,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Oyster Bay - East Norwich: $37,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc: $37,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Troy: $35,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNorth Shore Alliance of Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth (Nagly): $35,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCamp Fire North Shore Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJames L McKeown Boys and Girls Club of Woburn Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return)GA31.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Foundation · The Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Education Comes First Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Education Comes First Inc

How much does Education Comes First Inc give?
Education Comes First Inc reported 24 itemized grants totaling $920,000, out of $1,022,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Education Comes First Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (79%), Education (7%), Human Services (5%).
Who are Education Comes First Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc ($78k), Private Jewels Boxing Club ($70k), Grenville Baker Boys and Girls Club Inc ($70k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Education Comes First Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return), Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
Where is Education Comes First Inc based?
Education Comes First Inc is based in NH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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